In a message dated 2001-10-18 21:33:55 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 1) saturations in TLD namespaces would require longer names for which > REORDERING is designed to give greater benefits/compression ratio. Is it not the case that logographic/ideographic writing systems such as Han and the syllable-oriented Unicode encoding of Hangul, with their large numbers of characters, convey more information per character than alphabetic scripts? How long, conceptually, does a domain name really need to be? I would probably have a warmer spot in my heart for these script-specific compression proposals if I were convinced that the users of Han and Hangul were somehow being cheated by not being able to register the equivalent of "FourthDistrictCentralProvincialLibraryBoardOfDirectors.org" as a domain name. > 2.0) the character frequency table are constructed from > Verisign GRS' ML.com testbeds. > Even for chinese han script, their > registrations came from China/TAIWAN/JAPAN/KOREA and other > non-asian squatters. I know that Soobok is not specifically listing this as a goal, but I thought efforts to accommodate the 15-character-and-longer Han domain names that have already been registered was explicitly a non-goal, since those businesses and individuals were supposed to have waited until an IDN solution was in place. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
